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Just pooodling along at work this morning when noticed the balloon heading right for me and quite low. Really low in fact. I just had time to whip out the camera and take the picture below. Amazing sight to behold but I do think they may have been looking for somewhere to land rather than being in the brown-sticky stuff which is what I first thought when I seen them so low.
Nothing in the news today so all must have gone well. :)
http://www.btinternet.com/~paul.evans28/107_0717.JPG
RomeoTangoFoxtrotMike
20th Aug 2003, 06:37
Hehe :D no, not me but one of the big boys (rides operators) -- you can tell by the relative size of the basket (if the big banner on the side doesn't give it away. ) The landing approach for a balloon is not too different to a small plane -- its just much slower in a balloon ;) So the balloon is low for landing a lot longer than fixed-wing.
And at the opposite end of the scale, here is RTFM, in a hopper :)
http://ripline.ballooning.org.uk/rtfm.jpg
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Julian
20th Aug 2003, 15:53
I think someone has nicked your bastket mate!
Wow, thats a brave man to go under that baloon..!!!!!!
Do you have the T-shirt that says "If you can read this, the bitch has fallen off....." :D
Makes sense now that he was so slow and low. Seems like he was doing touch and goes all over Sussex.... :D :ok:
david viewing
20th Aug 2003, 21:50
Cursed Ballons!
On Friday Night, I glanced over my shoulder to check on the approaching swarm of balloons creeping up on me from Northampton when a loud Thunk! drew my attention to the whirling propellor of the model aeroplane that I had just started up and to my thumb which had come into contact with it...
9 stitches later I am all the more convinced of the hazards of ballooning.